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Remove FBI Porn Scam, Android Phone Virus Removal

About FBI Porn Scam

FBI porn android scam is a joint name for ransomware that pops up all of a sudden to claim an amount of fine that can be up to $100, $200, $300, $500 by accusing victims of watching pornography, including child porn. Top 3 FBI porn scams are hereby shown below:

FBI porn

(FBI Cybercrime Division virus)

FBI

(FBI MoneyPak virus)

 

FBI2

 (United States Cyber Security virus)

Such FBI porn android scam can be highly convincible as it appears upon visits to pornographic sites. As a matter of fact, the sealed screen message is displayed by virus. Since it adopts MoneyPak payment method to collect money, it is often called MoneyPak Android virus. Regardless of how legit it appears to be with name of statutory department, images of national emblem, flag and figures of politics   attached on, one should learn from previous victims that such accusation is fraudulent. Once the stipulated ransom so fix on the message is submitted, it cannot be traced back to victims.

System Affected by FBI Porn Scam

Infiltration of FBI porn android scam can be horrible. The entire computer is frozen, including keyboard as Ctrl+Alt+Del key combination will not respond. Generally speaking, Safe Mode disables some vicious items so as to help victims to remove FBI porn scam. However, Safe Mode can be locked down as well should the version of Windows be low or secure coefficient be low. In such case, Windows XP owners would encounter predicament when all forms of Safe Mode are down quite often; while owners of Windows 7/ Vista/ 8 stand a chance to utilize one of the forms of Safe Mode. But don’t be over-optimistic since the longer FBI porn scam alive on a target machine, the more functionality will be disabled. Other erratic phenomena may also happen:

  • F8 key will not take victims in “Windows Advanced Options”.
  • Hit Enter key on any highlighted options under “Windows Advanced Options” will just circle back to “Windows Advanced Options” screen again.
  • White screen/ black screen appears when Safe Mode is reached.
  • Computer beeps and goes straight to FBI porn scam screen even though F keys keep being tapped when Windows starts.

Apparently, configurations referencing to system services have been affected by FBI porn scam. It is known to all that random and ill-disposed changes to kernel part of a computer will bring backdoor into being which can be exploited by other malevolent infections and tracking cookies, resulting in undesirable consequences:

  • Default homepage will be changed to other programs without consent after FBI porn scam is removed.
  • A lot of advertisements are caught to pop up constantly during browsing session.
  • Additional programs may appear on your desktop when FBI porn scam is removed successfully.
  • Your information may be abused on Internet.
  • Your personal information and the data on your favorite sites will be published to spammers for them to anchor target sites and attack the sites.
  • Computer performs poorly as more junks are brought in.

The above listed situations are commonly seen residual damages caused by FBI porn android scam. If you encounter more unexpected situations that are not written here and thus you are not able to tackle them down with the correspondent self-help guides offered within the last session of the article, you are welcome to get feasible solutions here by live chatting with online professionals.

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Aggressive FBI Porn Scam

This section explains well why victims should remove FBI porn scam thoroughly when they are able to operate in another user account on the same computer. All information of user accounts is recorded under C Disk even though they display completely different desktop. So it becomes understandable that once one of the user accounts locked down by FBI porn scam, others will gradually be locked up by the same virus as more directories and files will be searched by FBI porn scam if time allows. At the same time, with more normal items affected by the virus, Safe Mode, Safe Mode with Networking, Safe Mode with Command Prompt, System Restore would become useless. Therefore, it is an emergency to remove FBI porn scam as soon as possible.

 

Which Is the Best Solution to Remove FBI Porn Scam?

FBI porn scam is supported by Trojan, meaning Trojan is the gear. It can be foreseen, according to the property of Trojan, that FBI porn scam cannot be completely removed by anti-virus programs, even the powerful ones.

Study has shown that such ransomware like FBI porn scam will modify registry entries on a target machine so as to load itself the next time victims start up the target computer since it is not able to produce an initiator. Biding itself to regular programs, FBI porn scam manages to appear to be system service in Task Manager and place its vicious items in startup-config files such as win.ini, system.ini, winstart.bat, leading to successful steering clear of detection and even deletion by anti-virus programs. What’s worse, the Trojan supportive FBI porn scam manages to recover what has been removed and keep surviving from removal by security utilities with the help of multiple backups of vicious items.

To view it from this angle, removing FBI porn scam by anti-virus programs is impractical. Therefore, manual method is highly recommended when it comes to FBI porn scam removal. Feasible and explicit steps have been trawled through by online professionals and offered hereinafter. Strict compliance with the steps is always required; any slight mistake may incur damages beyond your imagination both overtime and instantly. If any help is needed, feel free to live chat with VilmaTech online experts here.

 

Self-help Guide to Remove FBI Porn Scam

 

Remove FBI porn scam when ‘Safe Mode with Networking’ is functional.
One: restart the computer into Safe Mode with Networking.

Windows 8 section

  • Stay at the sealed screen by FBI porn scam.
  • Press Alt,Ctrl and delete key together.

ctrl+alt+del

  • Please hold shift key and click on power button power button at the right bottom of the screen together.
  • Select Restart.
  • Choose Troubleshoot with arrow keys.

arrow key

  • Select Advanced options then.
  • Hit Restart button again.
  • Tap F5 once to get into safe mode with networking.

win8 safe mode4

 

Windows 7/XP/Vista section

  • As the computer boots but before Windows launches, keep hitting on “F8 key” continuously.

f8

  • Choose “Safe Mode with Networking” option when “Windows Advanced Options Menu” screen is seen.
  • Press Enter key.

 

Two: Disable startup items to stop FBI porn scam from automatically popping up when desktop loads.

Windows 8 section

  • Hover mouse over lower part of the screen till Charms bar appears.
  • Type ‘Task’ there and hit Enter key.

win8 task manager

  • Find and check the box next to FBI porn scam.
  • Press ‘Disable’ option to comfirm the change.

Windows 7/XP/Vista section

  • Press and hold Win key win key start menu and R key together to launch Search/ Run box.
  • Type ‘msconfig’ and hit Enter key.
  • Find and check the box next to FBI porn scam.
  • Press ‘Disable All’ option to finish the session.

 

Three: modify back the configuration in database.

Windows 8 section

  • Move your mouse over lower right screen till Search charm bar appears.
  • Type ‘regedit’ and hit Enter key.
  • Press and hold Ctrl+F to search for Winlogon.
  • Locate key labeled Shell in the right pane.
  • Right click on it and replace it with ‘explorer.exe’.

 

Windows 7/XP/Vista section

  • Click “start” and locate Run box.
  • Put ‘regedit’  in and press Enter.
  • Press and hold Ctrl+F together to search for Winlogon.
  • Locate key labeled Shell in the right pane.
  • Right click on it and replace it with ‘explorer.exe’.

change to explorer

 

Four: show hidden files to FBI porn scam in C Disk.

Windows 8 section

  • Open Windows Explorer by clicking on Windows Explorer application from Start Screen.
  • Select View tab on Windows Explorer window.
  • Tick ‘File name extensions’ and ‘Hidden items’ options and hit OK button to save change.
  • After that, navigate to Roaming folder and Temp folder respectively in C Disk to remove files with abnormal name, such as serial numbers with random letters.

win8 hidden file

 

Windows 7/XP/Vista section

  • Open ‘Control Panel’ from Start menu and search for ‘Folder Options’.

folder options1

  • Under View tab to tick ‘Show hidden files and folders and non-tick Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)’ and then click ‘OK’.
  • Then navigate to Roaming folder and Temp folder respectively in C Diskto remove files with abnormal name, such as serial numbers with random letters.

If you are not sure about which folder is vicious because there are so many temp folders named with a series of random numbers and letters, you are welcome to live chat for help.

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Five: remove all temp folders under System32 in C Disk.
  • Double click on Temp folder under System 32.
  • Press Ctrl and A key together.
  • Right click on one of the selected items.
  • When a drop down list shows, press Shift and D key together.
  • A box comes up for confirmation.
  • Press Enter key.

 

Six: reset browsers to ensure the settings there are normal as browser is the main entrance for infections.

Internet Explorer

  • Click on the Tools men.
  • Select Internet Option.
  • Left click onece on the Advanced ta.
  • Hit Reset buttonon ‘Reset Internet Explorer settings’ screen.
  • Press ‘Apply’.

reset IE

 

Mozilla Firefox

  • Hit Firefox buttonto get a drop down list.
  • Go into Help section.
  • Choose Troubleshooting information.
  • Press ‘Reset Firefox’ in the left-uppers-corner box.

reset firefox3

 

Google Chrome

  •  Hit ‘Customize and Control Google Chrome’ menu icon.
  • Select ‘Options’
  • tap ‘Under the Hood’ tab and press ‘Reset to Defaults’ button.

 

Seven: save changes by rebooting the computer normally to back on the affected user account and confirm that FBI porn scam is removed.

 

Remove FBI porn scam when ‘Safe Mode with Networking’ is down while ‘Safe Mode with Command Prompt’ is still workable.
One: boot into Safe Mode with Command Prompt.

Windows 8 section

  • Please press Alt,Ctrl and delete key together to get into blue screen with several options.
  • Please hold shift key and click on power button together.
  • Please select Troubleshoot option with arrow keys.
  • Select Advanced options.
  • Hit Restart button at the right bottom of the screen.
  • Please hit F6 to get into safe mode with command prompt.

 

Windows 7/XP/Vista section

  • As the computer starts but before Windows launches, keep tapping “F8 key” continuously.
  • Highlight “Safe Mode with Command Prompt” option with arrow keys when “Windows Advanced Options Menu” comes up.
  • Press Enter key.

safe mode with command prompt

 

Two: create a new user account from cmd line.
  • Once getting into Safe Mode with Command Prompt, one will see a flashing slash behind “System32”.
  • Type ‘explore’ (without quotes) and hit Enter key to get a new desktop.
  • Created a new user account with administrator right.

Due to the limit space, steps to create user accounts are not shown here. If you don’t know how to create a user account with administrator right, you are welcome to get step by step guidance from online computer experts here.

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Three: follow step Two to step seven offered in the ‘Safe Mode with Networking’ section above to remove FBI porn scam in the newly created user account.
  • Restart the computer normally after finishing creating the new user account.
  • Select the newly created user account and enter into there.

Complete Removal of FBI Porn Scam is Required

Remember that all the above steps should be stick to the order as given and extra attention should be paid to any possible vicious items so that a complete removal can be achieved without doubt. Any omission will lead to incomplete removal and worse situation definitely. As mentioned above, a backdoor is opened up secretly. Such passage does not serve to transfer collected information only, it also helps to upload the concrete situation of a target machine. In such way, FBI porn scam can be enabled to stay longer waiting for money submission or threatening victims into submission finally by damaging more and more build-in functionality.

Once the attempt to remove FBI Porn scam being noticed by remote cyber criminal thanks to the information uploaded by the backdoor, more destructive codes will be dispatched onto a target machine to affect deeper system configurations, causing problems like BSOD (blue screen of death)( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSOD ) or simply black screen giving no clue on how to get into DOS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS )or desktop. Should it be the case, the situation is anticipated to have been re-configured to some extent by FBI Porn scam, making a target machine a genuine zombie.

Provided that such situation is caused by delay in removal, it is not worth it. The consequence caused by incomplete removal can vary from one another. Yet BSOD can be anticipated in such situation. Whereupon, it can grow into a more cumbersome task to remove FBI Porn scam.

Take Positive Attitude to FBI Porn Scam

It is the money that is the aim for hackers to keep making ransomware like FBI porn scam. They make living by doing so. To get much more money, they develop FBI porn scams with vivid interface; to avoid being traced down by police, they employ prepaid card and adopt DDOS attack method. It can be anticipated that enterprises are the major targets, for if they want to keep their business running, they would rather believe such ransomware is genuine and submit the stipulated amount of money. Such connivance would encourage hackers to make more FBI porn scam in another way. Whether the locked up computer belongs to enterprise or individual, one should search for appropriate way to remove FBI porn scam to get everything workable again, rather than transferring money to hackers who has been reported to seldom help unblock screen as they promises to do so.

Conclusion:

FBI porn android scam is a program made by hackers to get huge profit. Therefore, it is no use submitting the fixed amount of money in a hope to get back a workable computer as well as Android system. Take the fact that FBI porn scam is geared by Trojan into consideration, victims should not make compromise and work on another user account or functional Safe Mode. Situation gets worse with the span of time for FBI porn scam to be alive on a target machine extends. Such bad situation can even be seen after FBI porn Android malware is removed thoroughly, thus more time and energy are in need to put into troubleshooting other issues. So the best option is to search for the most efficient way to remove FBI porn Android threat. It is believed that most PC/Android users would turn to anti-virus programs or other reputable security utilities. However, it has been long reported to be failure as FBI Android virus is a kernel-mode virus. To rectify configurations within the kernel section of a computer radically, manual approach is the only option. But implementing manual approach requires computer technology to a certain level. Should you know little about computers, it is recommended to get one-to-one assistance from VilmaTech online support by clicking on the live chat button here.

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